November, 2016
Articles of Fr. Shay Cullen
November 22, 2016 ·
STOP THE CRIMINALIZING OF FILIPINO CHILDREN Fr. Shay Cullen 22 November 2016 There is an ongoing debate in the Philippine congress to lower the age of criminal liability for children from 15 years to 9 years old as it was in the Penal Code of 1930. This is regressive,against the best interests of the child […]
Read More...A betrayal of the Philippines’ real heroes
November 22, 2016 · By Mary Aileen Bacalso for www.ucanindia.in
Bishops, rights groups condemn ‘shameful’ decision to bury former dictator Ferdinand Marcos in special cemetery. By Mary Aileen Bacalso Manila: The Philippine Supreme Court has spoken. There is no legal impediment to the burial of former dictator Ferdinand Marcos in the country’s cemetery for heroes. This is a major insult to the dignity of thousands […]
Read More...Philippine Church ‘faces religious persecution’
November 22, 2016 · By Mark Saludes, Manila for www.ucanews.com
Bishops’ conference chief accuses social media trolls of mounting church attacks over stance on morals, rights Religious persecution is being experienced in the Philippines despite it being a predominantly Christian country, according to the head of the bishops’ conference. “Persecution is not limited to violence,” conference president Archbishop Socrates Villegas of Lingayen-Dagupan said Nov. 14. […]
Read More...Paedophile who posed as 11-year-old online was actually talking to another child sex offender
November 21, 2016 · By HRIS DYER for www.mirror.co.uk
Jonathan Wales masqueraded as a child and began talking to Simon Riley, who was also pretending to be underage A sex offender who pretended to be an 11-year-old girl online was actually talking to another paedophile also pretending to be underage. Jonathan Wales, 41, masqueraded as a child and began talking to Simon Riley, 21, […]
Read More...Man due in court over human trafficking for sexual exploitation
November 21, 2016 · By www.irishtimes.com
A man is due to appear before Dublin District Court on Wednesday morning charged in connection with human trafficking. The 33-year-old was arrested on Tuesday as part of an investigation into the trafficking of Polish nationals into the State by organised crime groups for sexual exploitation. During the course of the investigation, which commenced in […]
Read More...Racism, A Factor in the Election of a President
November 18, 2016 ·
Racism, A Factor in the Election of a President Fr. Shay Cullen 18 November 2016 The election of a president in a free democracy is one of the most important political exercises that can be done by the electorate. What has motivated the electorate of the United States to put into the most powerful position […]
Read More...Father Shay Cullen: Helping vulnerable children Follow PREDA Foundation
November 18, 2016 · By www.cctv-america.com/
The United Nations Children’s Fund estimates more than a million children, around the world, are subjected to human trafficking every year. It’s been called “modern-day slavery,” forcing children into labor, the sex trade or recruitment into militias. As a result of insufficient government infrastructure in developing countries and the so-called “invisible nature” of these terrible […]
Read More...Duterte to suspend writ of habeas corpus if ‘forced’
November 14, 2016 · By Paterno Esmaquel II for www.rappler.com
President Rodrigo Duterte says the law allows him to do this ‘to protect the Republic of the Philippines’ MANILA, Philippines – President Rodrigo Duterte warned that he can suspend the writ of habeas corpus, a safeguard against warrantless arrests, if lawlessness – particularly the illegal drugs trade – persists in the country. “If you force […]
Read More...The Statement of Solidarity Philippines
November 14, 2016 ·
Room 106, CICM Guest House Building No.60, 14th Street, New Manila, Quezon City Telefax: (02)584.3190, Mobile: 0932.434.2278 E-Mail Address: [email protected] Betrayal of the Filipino People We in Solidarity Philippines are dismayed over Supreme Court decision which ruled that President Duterte has the authority to order the burial of the remains of the Dictator Ferdinand Marcos […]
Read More...Bulk of world’s child deaths in just 10 countries – study
November 14, 2016 ·
‘Accelerated investment in child survival is imperative’ to meet the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, authors of the study say PARIS, France – Sixty percent of the 5.9 million children under 5 who died last year were in just 10 countries in Africa and Asia, an evaluation of global infant health revealed Friday, November 11. Pneumonia […]
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